Israel hands over Lebanon cluster-bomb maps

Israel has given a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon details of where it dropped cluster bombs in its war with Hezbollah in 2006, Lebanon's prime minister has said. The bombs often do not explode on impact, but can do so later at the slightest touch.

Prime Minister Fuad Siniora "received a phone call from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) commander General Claudio Graziano informing him that Israel had provided details of the locations of cluster bombs it dropped in south Lebanon during the 2006 war," according to a statement issued by his office late on Tuesday night.

The United Nations has since 2006 repeatedly appealed to Israel to provide maps showing the location of over one million cluster munitions dropped by the Jewish state during its devastating air war against Lebanon, around 40 percent of which failed to detonate on impact, according to the United Nations.

300 civilians have since been killed or maimed by cluster bombs